Since the launch of HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, Virtual Reality (VR) is widely used in artistic practice. Not only artists working with the digital deal with the new medium, also many artists from other fields e.g. performance of sculpting discover VR as a medium to extend and enhance their artistic ideas. The lecture will include current developments in artistic VR experiences and the history of VR art.

Curator Tina Sauerländer (peer to space) introduces virtual reality as an artistic medium. She talks about the history of VR, current developments, different technologies and their use in exhibitions. She will talk about her role as curator and mediator between the audience and artists' dealings with alternate reality media and share her experiences from organizing and curating exhibitions like "The Unframed World" (HeK, Basel), "Uncanny Conditions" (whiteBOX, Munich) and "RESET III and Virtual Reality" (PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne, 2017).

Speech about women in art by SALOON founder Tina Sauerlaender on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of SALOON Berlin. June 26, 2019.
The SALOON is a network for women working in the art scenes of Berlin, Brussels, Dresden Hamburg, London, Paris Prague, Tel Aviv, and Vienna as curators, artists or journalists, as well as in galleries, museums or universities. The SALOON considers itself a non-profit-oriented network for women working in art. Its aim is to create more visibility for female protagonists in the art scene, create new projects, exhibitions or other forms of cooperation. Independent curator and writer Tina Sauerlaender (peer to space) founded the SALOON in summer 2012. She has been running the SALOON together with the artist Ornella Fieres (ornellafieres.com) and gallery manager Larissa Fischer (Kuckei + Kuckei).
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Challenges of Presenting and Preserving VR Art online, HS Mainz, 2019

Two years ago in autumn 2017, Philip Hausmeier and Tina Sauerländer founded the online database and research platform for Virtual Reality experiences in visual arts, Radiance VR (radiancevr.co). In her talk, Tina Sauerländer introduces the platform and speaks about the future plans as well as about the challenges of presenting and preserving VR art online. The talk took place on the occasion of the "Culture Back-Up" conference at HS Mainz, organized by Prof. Tilman Baumgärtel. Introduction to the talk in German, Talk in English.